Join our expert guides for a walk around the heart of Edinburgh's historic Old Town. We'll show you the hidden corners of this fascinating district: the closes and courtyards, nooks and crannies – pla...

Mystery Meat Club builds on the success of being the best niche stand up club in Brighton. The Compere Anthony Ayton regularly appears on Latest TV. Every show will have a mixture of comedy styles and...

From Calum MacInnes, creator of the epic Zero Quest Trilogy, comes a brand new children's show for 2018. An interactive fantasy adventure for the ages. Do battle with fierce monsters, avoid deadly tra...

This Tour de Farce of comic mayhem, satire, and bathos chronicles the exploits of an American in Central and Eastern Europe when humanity first awoke from the deep freeze of Communism. Things like t...

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. We involve everyone: skip, clap and march together to traditional Scottish music. Enjoy discovering very simple (often simp...

The team behind the hit competitive comedy show ComedySportz are bringing a brand new show to the Edinburgh Fringe jam packed with silly games and songs for even younger audiences. Highly interactiv...

Have you ever kicked a potato into the sea? Lee Kyle has. It's great but it's not the answer to your problems or anything. Unless your problem is that your sea doesn't have enough potatoes in, which...

Jake Donaldson returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his debut hour long solo show! Jake mixes stand-up and storytelling in his new show, which explores what it’s really like to try to follow your drea...

Award-winning comedian and UK board gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage. Buckaroo, Guess Who, Hungry Hippos and more done like you've never seen it before. Suitab...

Improvable and the Chapter of Secrets is an improvised adventure story in the style of Harry Potter. Come with us as we play an entirely new chapter of wizarding history, with new heroes and villans. ...

A family of puppets is arriving from West Africa (Benin and Togo)! Hand and string puppets, masks and giant puppets too! The show tell traditional tales with lions and giraffes and rabbits! and is als...

‘Lukas Kirkby Does an Hour’ is a madcap hour of characters, songs and sketches. Characters include Wellyhead, the man who only eats soup, and the old lady with the head of a baby. Songs cover a variet...

A family of puppets is arriving from West Africa (Benin and Togo)! Hand and string puppets, masks and giant puppets too! The show tell traditional tales with lions and giraffes and rabbits! and is als...

Learn the skill and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course. Our tutors are professional comedians and writers, and the course includes a graduation perfor...

The popular worldwide hit show returns with another revolving line-up of the best comedians, musical acts, magicians and children’s entertainers for all the family to enjoy together. ‘My eight-year-o...

Nominated Best Performance, Melbourne Fringe. Life's a party. At some point we all have to leave; some of us just choose when. Through storytelling, live musical soundscapes and spoken word, this is ...

‘Over Easy’ is the comedy breakfast show to set you up for your day. In our downstairs room we can pretend last night never happened (or never ended…), and let Jade take you on a strange, delightful ...

“FREE COPY OF RISK MAGAZINE WITH CHOCOLATE BISCUITS” These are the words on Gabby and Matt’s lips this one winter afternoon at Sloane Square tube station, as they work to support themselves while pur...

Is it your kid's birthday? Well it is today! Come sit in on a 40 minute birthday party for all the kids in the room! They'll play party games, get to see magic, maybe win a balloon animal or two and b...

Kathryn Pool is a Liturgical dance sensation in Yorkshire. Her YouTube videos have over a hundred views and all the under-25s in the liturgical dance community know her name. She is a shoe-in the fo...

Want some comedy with you coffee? Start the day with radio host and oddball Rhodders, for an hour of Mirth in the Morning. Brought to you by Reading’s Stand and Deliver Comedy Club, you can expect tod...

After it's sell out run last year, the popular morning topical news show returns to the fringe. Three comics bring along the story from the weeks news they think is the most important and it goes to a...

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. We involve everyone: skip, clap and march together to traditional Scottish music. Enjoy discovering very simple (often simp...

A big bonkers blast of fun with super-duo Cat (the Spot Bots Mermaid, CBeebies) & Nicko. Love that frosty film or hate it, you will laugh your pants off & get snowed on! Join these lovable clowns and ...

Is there a right time to get married? Apparently yes, there is! Based on maths, the ideal age is 26. Don’t panic if you have missed that proverbial boat. 32 year old Scottish Comedian Samantha Hannah ...

Twat Out of Hell features comedian Gary G Knightley, as seen on Channel 4, BBC3 and the West End, performing his debut solo show. MCA Finalist 2017 Gary G Knightley “Clever, Funny and in your face” ...

Award-winning comedian and writer Daniel Audritt brings his first solo show to the fringe, asking 'what really makes us good or bad people?' Having previously had jokes on shows like 8 out of 10 Cats ...

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. Audience members are encouraged on stage to tell their favourite gags i...

Rosie Holt is not for everyone.- "If that was my daughter I'd be ashamed."- Rosie's mum's mate, "Please don't talk about me on stage" - Rosie's Ex; but those people are idiots. The best people like it...

I'm just a comedian, standing in front of literally anything, asking it to love me. How being needy and anxious made me famous for a day. As seen on the BBC's Soft Border Patrol. A new hour of stand-...

The popular worldwide hit show returns with another revolving line-up of the best comedians, musical acts, magicians and children’s entertainers for all the family to enjoy together. ‘My eight-year-o...

When you grow up working class you might not get much access to the arts. You might have to fight for it. You might have to fight your way out from whichever rock which society has placed you under. Y...

"Allow it" is a stand-up comedy about Western Philosophy and Islam in modern Britain told through the stories of teaching religious studies to teenagers in East London. What do you say when your stud...

Bringing his first solo run to the Fringe with his dark past, strange obsessions and naive optimism, Andrew Sim wants to find joy and spread it to you. With a combination of story telling, surreal imp...

American improvisor, storyteller and teacher Pete takes the real-life experiences, hopes and fears of kids in the audience (and their parents) and turns them into a totally interactive, one-man, comed...

A big bonkers blast of fun with super-duo Cat (the Spot Bots Mermaid, CBeebies) & Nicko. Love that frosty film or hate it, you will laugh your pants off & get snowed on! Join these lovable clowns and ...

Treble-Award winning Irish comedian and science communicator Dónal Vaughan brings his hugely successful science magic comedy show back to the Edinburgh Fringe. Prepare to enter the magical world of ...

Two stand-up comedians- Ryan Ward and Joe Molander- try to shrug off their problems for an hour to provide half an hour of light entertainment each. Will Ryan pull off his attempt to come across as re...

"Anesti Danelis delivers the funny with a hefty side of heart. Not only were his songs expertly composed, his lyrics were freaking hilarious." (MooneyOnTheatre.com) Songs for a New World Order is an ...

John Lewis is a 'computer scientist, father of four, social liberal, atheist, and not a retail store'. John Lewis is also 'a chain of high-end UK department stores'. Unfortunately for both Johns Lewis...

Justin Matson’s been kicked off three rollercoasters for being too fat, and now he’s finally ready to talk about it! Adorably awkward with a twist of gay, Matson brings his hit new show to Edinburgh ...

A fun stand-up show where comedian Sarah Iles invites you to her life of trying to date after 12 years out of the game (she was married, not in prison - Insert a hack witty comment here about them bei...

EXTRA SHOWS ADDED TO MEET DEMAND! 9PM SHOW DAILY FROM THE 12TH-26TH (NOT 15TH) Ollie is in hot demand as a headlining comedian at comedy clubs all around Asia. His sharp wit, intelligent material, a...

Love cake? Love comedy? Love free stuff? We have combined those 3 things, just for you, you amazing human that you are! This is a show that’s all about being lovely, enjoying yummy cakes and great c...

Grumpy Pants invites the audience into an eccentric and intimate world, where everyday objects such as suitcases, glasses of water and frisbees are bought to life in experimental juggling routines. ...

It’s said that 60% of us hate our jobs. Is it any wonder, with pointless jargon to contend with (Key Performance Indicators, anyone?), and even more pointless employee perks? A stapler isn’t a perk, f...

Treble-Award winning Irish comedian and science communicator Dónal Vaughan brings his hugely successful science magic comedy show back to the Edinburgh Fringe. Prepare to enter the magical world of ...

Heimatman A lone German determined to stop the coming slaughter of World War Two by killing Hitler. He almost succeeded in saving 60 million souls. Audience feedback Brighton Fringe: 'good piece of wr...

The world today is a frightening bewildering place for many… one man stands alone in trying to work it all out… in one hand a bottle of Rosé wine… in the other hand… the truth! Actually, sorry, it’s ...

Following on from the critically acclaimed and award nominated debut solo hour ‘Olaf Falafel and The Cheese Of Truth’ and the critically wounded second show 'Olaf Falafel Presents The Marmosets Of My ...

The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill. Across the month of August, the University of Oxford's premier sketch comedy troupe presents a rotating bill of stand-up, sketch,...

The Second Coming showcases the song-writing talents of Anna Durkacz Ryan and her acclaimed band, The Professors of Logic. The songs follow the mad ravings of an old wifey on the subject of growing ol...

From the age of sieges and chivalry comes a show about Medieval love, adrenaline junkies and an insane quest for glory. Join comedian and archaeologist Paul Duncan McGarrity as he explains how modern ...

Award-winning cabaret star and the UK’s most successful juggler, Mat Ricardo, had a problem – after a 30-year career as the go-to guy for jaw-dropping dexterity, he'd run out of new tricks. So he did ...

A brand new show from the people who brought you FUNNY STUFF FOR HAPPY PEOPLE. Martin "Bigpig" Mor has been doing family friendly shows all over the world, for over 30 years. In fact he has become a f...

Superheroes for Kids 3 is the newest version of the hit show. 2018 features some new superheroes and all new surprises. Plus dressing up, silly string, underpants, ping pong balls, laughter and chaos....

Clif Knight Sucks! It's plastered on walls and blasted through speakers. Stickers in dingy bathrooms make the condemning accusation. Standup and music mashed together to form a big ridiculous producti...

Doctor Klevemark is not a real doctor, but she believes in the power of positive thinking, like all people should. She is a perma-positive life coach who isn't going to let her own depression stop her...

After realising that when it comes to dating, mickey has a definitive bias towards white women. It was time to take a deeper look into whether it was nature or nurture. Mickey asks some tough and at t...

Superheroes for Kids 3 is the newest version of the hit show. 2018 features some new superheroes and all new surprises. Plus dressing up, silly string, underpants, ping pong balls, laughter and chaos....

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others'. Chortle Award winner – Best Club Show London. Top 5 comedy shows of the year (List). T...

In The Naked Truth, Tommy Helme shares an uncommon and candid view of the world we live in. Whilst sharing his own shambolic experiences Tommy reveals a alternative perspective on politics, race, reli...

Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe... with music specially selected to get your toes tapping and you sing...

As a naive young African student, freshly arrived in New York, one innocent thanksgiving invitation became a hair raising experience with white supremacists. Njambi takes the audience through her disc...

DO YOU THINK THAT'S WISE? - THE LIFE & TIMES OF JOHN LE MESURIER, written & performed by JULIAN DUTTON "ONE OF THE BEST VOCAL PERFORMERS AROUND," - BBC COMEDY. In this affectionate tribute to one of ...

Ever been for a curry with all ten members of the Wu Tang Clan? Ever thought about what it all means (death/life/lager), mid downward-dog? Ever scored the winning goal in the last minute, only to have...

Pam Ford. six foot Aussie entertainer. Brings Pants & Pantsability Rinsed to Edinburgh 2018, a regular at the Fringe, fans return year after year to see what happened next? Its refreshing to actually ...

In Edinburgh 2014 Nathaniel Metcalfe performed his second Fringe show. On the very last day, he broke up with his girlfriend of four years. He hasn’t been back since. It doesn’t take a great psycholog...

Award-winning Angel Comedy (Best Club in UK 2015, 2017 Chortle Awards) brings a showcase to Edinburgh Festival 2018. Award-winning comedians and the best new acts, free! Time Out recommended, and Top ...

6th year of the Edinburgh fringe's most successful-ever Jewish comedy show. It's a fun, revealing and truthful story which also provides an excellent opportunity to hear once again some of the world's...

ComedySportz is a fast-paced improv comedy show where two teams battle it out for the biggest laughs. The players create quick witted sketches, scenes and songs from whatever suggestions are thrown at...

Following a series of failures at music festivals, a Bulgarian musician faces a midlife crisis. Is his lifelong love affair with his instrument – the gadulka, about to be challenged by the arrival of ...

Treble-Award winning Irish comedian and science communicator Dónal Vaughan brings his hugely successful science magic comedy show back to the Edinburgh Fringe. Prepare to enter the magical world of ...

According to WikiHow, you can Live Your Best Life in just 14 steps (with pictures) but can it really be that easy? Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) sets off on a journey to follow the best, wors...

This is a show about Raymond Bishop. No, not the Raymond Bishop, but the other one. In this comedy show you will learn all there is to know about the upper-class, privately- educated, elite academic...

Siân’s mother worries about her. So Siân has said she’s a successful stand-up comedian on a cruise ship. This is a show that attempts to maintain that lie. All aboard! You are all invited to an exclu...

Paul Foxcroft: Huge If True Fifty Five minutes of hi-octane nonsense from one of the UK's best improv comedians, half of quirky sketch-pals Surname & Surname, and host of the sell-out hit show 'Quest...

William Stone ("Belting gags"- Angela Barnes) and Simone Belshaw (South Coast Comedian 2017 Finalist, Funny Women Regional Finalist 2018) are just two pals trying to make sense of life and it’s many f...

Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill's Selection. Join host Ian Fox (Paul Revill is AWOL) for a frisky, fun and irreverent hour of stand-up comedy. Just like a packet of Revels swee...

Comedy in a boiler suit with a lethal set of ratchets. One liners, deranged frontal lobes and jokes that jump hot from the porcelain. Come and meet OCD plumber Ron who will take you on a unique journe...

Mr. Fizzywigg needs your help! The clock is ticking and he has less than one hour to produce a brand new story or the story factory will be shut down forever! What would the world be like without ne...

Ireland’s own Duffy Connors is taking his one man show ‘Johnny Irish’ to Edinburgh which includes stories from the odd man’s life, well crafted one liners and musical comedy. In this show you will lea...

Hosted by award-winning comedian and UK board game champion James Cook, the funniest Fringe performers play classic and new board games live on stage in this comedy panel show based on board/card/part...

Superheroes for Kids 3 is the newest version of the hit show. 2018 features some new superheroes and all new surprises. Plus dressing up, silly string, underpants, ping pong balls, laughter and chaos....

Steve Day's dad has Alzheimers. There's nothing he can do about it except remember the way he was. Steve has also been deaf since his teens but has new hearing aids so now he's going through all the m...

In the last 4 years Comedian Gareth Berliner has appeared in the worlds longest running soap (Coronation Street), told a time travelling Doctor to shut up (Doctor Who), punched a postman in the face (...

Amused Moose Comedy Award Finalist, 2015, Abbie Murphy returns to the fringe with her new show, ‘Eat Sleep Shit Shag’ Murphy has been trying to figure out what it is to be a woman. Anecdotes from th...

'No Brainer' - This is a compilation show that you don't have to think too hard about; two comics with very different backgrounds who have somehow ended up friends. This is like the 'Kinder egg' of E...

Dan the Man (Kidz Comedian) - 'What I want to be when I grow up.' Dan dreams of being lots of different things when he grows up. An opera singer, a serious dancer, even a geenius mind reader! One thin...

The Nitwits are the most amazing thing to happen to children's entertainment since a cat first rode a roomba. Matty and Teddlie are loud, naughty, bright and absolutely hilarious. Grandma's gonna kil...

Scott Mitchell lives in Singapore. He has been keeping a diary for over 20 years. Join him for the tales of his previous 12 months in Asia plus highlights of his overseas adventures spanning his life ...

A brand new show from the people who brought you FUNNY STUFF FOR HAPPY PEOPLE. Martin "Bigpig" Mor has been doing family friendly shows all over the world, for over 30 years. In fact he has become a f...

Hannah quit being a comedian in 2013 when she stopped believing in herself (despite being 'very funny'). Frustrated and without a creative outlet, she fell into a corporate job and a cycle of reckless...

This show is for anyone on the outside looking in, wondering how, what, where, when, why and... what was the question anyway? In this hour of refreshing stand-up, Matt ('A West country Emo Philips for...

Rising comedy star, Nicky Wilkinson, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with her hotly anticipated show, HAPPY. HAPPY is a fun-packed hour of stand-up, pies, party games and prizes, celebrating all that...

Join our expert guides for a walk around the heart of Edinburgh's historic Old Town. We'll show you the hidden corners of this fascinating district: the closes and courtyards, nooks and crannies – pla...

Just 3Folk is a three part harmony folk-singing trio. We love performing our music and really hope you’ll come along and hear us at the Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival 2018! Our show will cater for all...

The popular worldwide hit show returns with another revolving line-up of the best comedians, musical acts, magicians and children’s entertainers for all the family to enjoy together. ‘My eight-year-o...

Mr. Fizzywigg needs your help! The clock is ticking and he has less than one hour to produce a brand new story or the story factory will be shut down forever! What would the world be like without ne...

It's the smallest comedy show, in the smallest venue at the Fringe. A select three audience members, at any one time, will see the best comedy that can fit in and around the world's smallest Fringe ve...

A compilation show featuring a rotating bill of comedians and storytellers talking about everything book related - it could be about anything from how a book changed their lives to a time they partied...

"Cold as Icelandic" is an internationally themed standup comedy show from a single guy in his late twenties who has spent most of his life living out of a suitcase. Having always been an outsider, bot...

Kevin Precious is a former teacher of Religious Studies. He's also a non-believer, or agnostic, should you wish to be specific who attends monthly Humanist meetings. 'Unholier Than Thou' includes joke...

Ahir Shah returns to Edinburgh with a new hour of stand-up about life and what comes after, death and what comes before, and Bohemian Rhapsody. Shah's last show, Control, enjoyed a critically acclaime...

Join comedians Sam Golin (as seen on Ginx TV's Console Yourself and Videogame Nation) and Gabriel Ebulue (as heard on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio Five Live and The Three Track Podcast) for an hour of...

New work-in-progress solo show from Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy. With seemingly sweet and innocent ch...

Please Stop! Please Stop! Please Stop! No this is not a command but a comedy documentary which explores the view that all cities in the UK lack identity. Do you love living in a place that could be an...

4 years ago, samantha lost everything, including her marbles. In an adventure through the british welfare system Samantha battles cuts, medication and eventually trolls. The journey back to sanity can...

The show is basically the story of my life and centers around my well meaning failures as an adult, from the time I leaned in to kiss a woman that had just interviewed me for a job, to my investments ...

POTTERVISION! The Harry Potter Parody show that celebrates and highlights the absurdities of those magical movies. Join us, four full grown men pretending to be twelve year old children as we re-enact...

Backpackers and travelling comedians have a similar lifestyle, exploring new cultures, traveling light and relying on booze to socialise. Every show brings these two groups together with globe-trottin...

Let's chat about your race relations issues. Who better with than a Samoan/Welsh comedian from New Zealand? Focusing on Britain's unique history with the Golliwog – It's all about addressing the mixe...

Juliet (writer on Sarah Millican Television Programme and 8 out of 10 Cats) loves dogs and loves cycling but the two don't mix - she presents further tales of loving/cursing her rescue dog, group dyna...

Martin and Logy are a father and son juggling act from Northern Ireland. They perform all over the world, and are bringing their new show to the Edinburgh Fringe. This is a family friendly show with a...

'Funny. Fast. Free' **** (ThreeWeeks). Each night sees four experienced acts performing. All our comedians have been hand-picked from an ethical fair trade farm where they've been grown in only the fi...

Come hear the story of a man who has put everything on the line to pursue what he loves, and feel inspired through humour to stop letting passion fall to the side, and start living the dream. Matt Wat...

It's a cult of happiness. Save your soul with laughter. Witness Ireland's finest stand-ups, along with holy discussions and blessed games. Handpicked by Irish Comedian of Last Year, the reverend Stev...

East London's premier rapper of first-world problems, Andy Quirk, and his backup dancer Anna J, invite you to join their crew for fist-pumping therapy tackling the inconsequential irks of modern livin...

I am Winter. Prince of Punchlines & defender of gags & the humorous secrets of Castle Greyskull. Fabulous, secret comedic powers were revealed to me one night when I held aloft a mighty microphone & s...

Four top-quality fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed to be clucking funny. Cockmungously not suitable for the f...

Bonqrz is an interactive physical comedy show about how Narin Oz’s disastrous life choices made her decide to be a budgerigar. Narin Oz takes the audience on a very surreal journey of human folly in...

The star of Naked Video and Absolutely Fabulous hosts this comedy and chat format with special guests from the across the fringe. Previous guests have been as varied as broadcaster Mark Lawson, journ...

Following on from the critically acclaimed and award nominated debut solo hour ‘Olaf Falafel and The Cheese Of Truth’ and the critically wounded second show 'Olaf Falafel Presents The Marmosets Of My ...

“It's not the end of the world!" Join the last survivors of the global nuclear catastrophe in Lotta Quizeen’s boutique bunker. She’s got recipe tips for tinned goods and dating strategies to repopulat...

No purpose, no point, no means, no future, no ends, no reason, no mind, no entry, no signal, no credit, no news, no access, no all, no areas, no light, no tunnel, no future, no hope, no dark, no line...

STAND-UP PHILOSOPHY is like stand-up comedy, except that it’s philosophical as well as funny! With a different philosophical theme and line-up each day, the Fringe’s most intelligent comedians join so...

The popular worldwide hit show returns with another revolving line-up of the best comedians, musical acts, magicians and children’s entertainers for all the family to enjoy together. ‘My eight-year-o...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse's Comedy Selection returns...

Zahra has never stood in front of a mirror & taken a Selfie. She's more likely to stand in front of the mirror and ask herself to make a change. From Kim Kardashian's Career to Kim Jung Un's Korea, th...

Susan Macbeth is the tale of one highly unqualified English teacher’s adventure to a small coastal community, to spread a love of literature and not get burned alive in a wicker effigy. In equal parts...

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne of Your Life is the award-winning Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in the Newcastle comedy scene for hosting hilariou...

Direct from Australia for kids of all ages - Game On 2.0! is the sequel to the 2015 cult interactive comedy for children all about video games- GAME ON! Matty Grey is returning to Gameland to fight ...

Everyday life can be tragic and comical at the same time. And what’s more uneasy - to laugh at something that is tragic or to take something ridiculous seriously? These are the questions for this uniq...

Star of FOX’s Showtime At The Apollo, finalist on Season 8 of NBC Comcast’s knockout television show, Trial By Laughter & runner-up for the woman he loves. ‘He had been making his mark on the New Yor...

The biggest names - Coogan, Evans, Eclair… And the biggest competition! Who will win the three most prestigious awards in comedy? The High Flyer Award (Best Show), The Cheap Flight Award (Best Budge...

The Rat Pack stand-up comedy returns for a 6th year after 5 sell-out years with the Free Festival. This year we celebrate stand-up comedy from around the world with our international stars of comedy ...

Moby Dick: a book, a play, an episode of Star Trek, 12 movies, and a fish. Now, it’s been adapted into a stand-up comedy show by niche idiot Jonny Gillam. He wondered: 'if we can adapt books into play...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse's Comedy Selection returns...

American improvisor, storyteller and teacher Pete takes the real-life experiences, hopes and fears of kids in the audience (and their parents) and turns them into a totally interactive, one-man, comed...

Bra as metaphwoar! Bust out of those stereotype roles that flatten us and join Charmian’s epic quest to boldly find our own fit in world and a bra that fits. Big hit down under! (Funny.. upbeat.. inte...

Jane used to be fun. By fun, she means drunk. She’s been sober for 15 years but still misses the buzz of that first, second, third, fourth drink. A frank and funny show about anxiety, sex, alcohol and...

Never mind the bollocks, here's the best comedian you've never heard of. A simple stand up show, from a complicated man, with some lush Art & ludicrous tales thrown in. Damn it, I might even do poem! ...

Now in its fourth year, the glorious, comedic voyage from suburbia to chaos finally comes to Edinburgh. Following a eureka moment in Hemel Hempstead, Joel Sanders bought a narrowboat and moved into ...

Impressionist Naomi McDonald smashes down the doors to celebs' dressing rooms, grabs them by the scruff of the neck and body slams them onto the stage. Nigella Lawson defrosts meals in her bathtub, Me...

The show isn't entirely about space, although it takes place in space. As all shows do but rarely acknowledge it. Whispers in the Cosmos is probably an existentialist quest wearing a stand up comedy c...

Direct from Australia for kids of all ages - Game On 2.0! is the sequel to the 2015 cult interactive comedy for children all about video games- GAME ON! Matty Grey is returning to Gameland to fight ...

"You're funny, I'm funny. If we're still funny, maybe we're okay." A love story. A comedy. Maybe neither. Written & performed by Jacob Lovick and Vita Fox Eva is a stand-up comedian. James is head-w...

Written & performed by Chris Davis Directed by Mary Tuomanen Drunk Lion follows an alcoholic Lion who spends his days drinking into oblivion in a cantina, until he meets Chris, a young foreigner lea...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day. Two shows every day, as the Laughing Horse's Pick of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh for its 15t...

Multi Award-winning Welsh comedian, Jenny Collier, returns with a brand new hour of stand up. After a sellout 2017 run, a smattering of European gigs and another year of performing all over the UK, sh...

Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian from Sydney, which is objectively a better city than Melbourne, just trust him. He is currently based in London, UK. He has sold out shows at fest...

Following sell out shows for the last five years, a number of great and varied British and international comedians from around the Fringe come together once more in a mixture of stand-up comedy and in...

How did Kim Jong Un get Trump to change a lightbulb? …who cares!! Just grab a pint instead. Josh Baulf is a southern lad, struggling with his rampant metro-sexuality. Louise Atkinson is a gravy stai...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse's Comedy Selection returns...

'Once in a Generation' by J A Calderwood It's the day of the referendum and Mary is on a high. Campaigning all day for independence, she returns home confident that a new era is dawning. Her husband ...

Set in the heyday of glam rock and science fiction, Rocket Man is a play about family and friends bearing the brunt of a little-understood mental illness. Velvet Goldmine and Withnail & I collide in a...

Following up from his 2016 sell out run, Robin Morgan returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Join the writer for Have I Got News For You, Newzoids, tHE nEWS Quiz and The Now Show as he premiers th...

'It was a mystery, a murder mystery, almost, we thought, although we couldn't be sure, because there were no signs of a murder. But how else could he end up in our duckpond? Not from drowning. It's no...

This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe day, as you spend an hour in the company of one of the finest stand-ups on the Scottish comedy circuit. Visit this late-afternoon soiree which ...

From Deadpan to Bedpan - A light hearted look at trauma. In 2017 BAFTA winner, double bass player, comedian and Harry Potter actor was involved in a near fatal head-on automobile collision in the hil...

He’s the world’s worst poet...and he doesn't know it. Sex, death, Christianity, Tim Henman, pigeons, divorce, Nazism, casseroles; no topic is too out there for Will Penswick. Brought to you by one of...

The worldwide hit show returns with a line-up of superb and varied comedians from all around the Fringe doing material based around the hilarious, cheeky subject of shagging. ‘A tour de force of lau...

A young aspiring author with a single dream, to share his poetry with the world. Ali Babiker has isolated himself over the last 6 years in pursuit of poetry. In a debut show, a show that is all about ...

ComedySportz is a fast-paced improv comedy show where two teams battle it out for the biggest laughs. The players create quick witted sketches, scenes and songs from whatever suggestions are thrown at...

Graham Fellows has performed as the character John Shuttleworth for over 25 years on stage, TV and radio, delighting audiences throughout the UK with his songs and quirky take on everyday life. Recent...

Being alive is kinda shite, isn’t it? Kate Talbot’s been somehow doing it successfully for sixteen years now. So far it’s included some mildly entertaining school experiences, two very dumb but arguab...

The World Health Organisation estimates that by 2020 depression will be the biggest first world problem, but how does this affect the mental health work force? In this work-in-progress show award-winn...

An hour of off-the-wall physical comedy, satire and music. With sausage... 67 arseholes is Phil Zimmerman’s take on the insanity of modern life. A riotous rant, mercilessly mocking establishment corru...

It's 2018. The world may have already ended. One of Australia's best political comedians and activists Sean Bedlam has no answers* but a lot of hilarious, intelligent insights. *He has some answers. ...

Thanksgiving with your family in the most eye-popping of places. Don't worry... You’re Okay! Suzanne is a New York comedian who was selected for the San Francisco Comedy Competition finals, New York W...

After 30 wasted years, Sean McLoughlin (Chortle Award Nominee 2018, Ricky Gervais tour support) is back at the Fringe to perform the show of his mediocre life. **** The Scotsman **** The List **** Ch...

Eagerly anticipated debut show from the South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015. It’s easy to be cynical in this day and age, so let’s just get on with it. From weddings to Robert Mugabe, nothing is saf...

The critically acclaimed EdFringe 2017 improvised solo comedy about your crazy life returns! From the New York City comic who brought you the EdFringe hits "Desperately Seeking the Exit" and "Late wit...

Martin and Logy are a father and son juggling act from Northern Ireland. They perform all over the world, and are bringing their new show to the Edinburgh Fringe. This is a family friendly show with a...

Three headline comedians from different countries battle each other with their best gags to win the audience vote. With different acts every night, the scores are tallied over the festival and the ove...

See this award nominated (best comedy Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian (now lives in Bedfordshire…gutted) who played to full houses throughout Edfringe (2017). See the man who writes for Channel 4’s awa...

Steve Bennett is the happiest man on the planet. But he's been worn down by the sheer poopiness of Earth and her people. Join Bennett on a magical journey through the scariest bits of modern living,...

Come to Fireside at five o'clock for a same-face different-show experience every night with your favourite surrealist queer Canadian singer and hostess Ella Jean. Ella showed up to the UK at the end ...

Did you know that Edinburgh has a thriving comedy scene ALL YEAR? Well now you do! Join Matt Duwell, as he presents the best of Edinburgh's comedy heroes and the pick of the scene's up and comers. Eve...

Thao originally wanted to be an actress but was disheartened because she didn't see many Asians on TV. The only time she ever saw a lot of Asians on TV was on border security. Her comedy can be best ...

From Calum MacInnes, creator of the epic Zero Quest Trilogy, comes a brand new children's show for 2018. An interactive fantasy adventure for the ages. Do battle with fierce monsters, avoid deadly tra...

A double bill of stand up from 2 award winning new comics. STEFF TODD "Hilarious" The Stand. Funny Women’s Queen of the Meme and a Runner Up in Hilarity Bites New Act of the Year 2017. SUSAN RIDDELL...

Take a tough teenage life, mix it with weird family situations and mysterious coming of age feelings, then season it all with strict religious heritages, the discovery of sexuality, a complicated adul...

With "Living in a Hyperbolic Chamber." Jeffrey Baldinger takes the audience through his life of ridiculous misadventures, while it's narrative focuses on the use of language in every part of the world...

Audiences vote daily to determine the winner in the World Cup of Comedy at the Fringe. Stand-up comedians from around the world compete for bragging rights and our very own Comedy Cup. Hosted by comed...

Political comedian/ball of anxiety Alex Kealy honks on about love (passionate) and politics (jaded) for show number three. As featured in The Evening Standard's Best Jokes of Edinburgh 2017 and the iN...

Nominated for Best Comedy at FRINGE WORLD 2016 & selling out all 23 shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 & 2017. Sam (Australia) has been crushing stand-up globally and this new show is even better than las...

Codependent Arising is an immersive theater experience revealing the deepest, weirdest parts of one comedian in her most vulnerable state. Jump into the mind of Jessica Michelle Singleton and experien...

The poster boy for white privilege returns to complain about things for no real reason. "one of the most accomplished hours of comedy you will find here this month. Or, to be honest, anywhere, any t...

Darkly humorous energetic play about the absurdist nature of work and mental illness. Do you have what it takes to become our next DEPRESSION SUPERSTAR? We are looking for a super inefficient, dedica...

COME ONE, COME ALL TO THIS TRAGIC AFFAIR! Comedy Freak Show is an exhibition of comedic rarities, sometimes referred to as "Alternative" or "Un-funny". Typical features would be socially unusual huma...

Aussie globetrotting comedian-storyteller Frank Hadchiti and Italian surrealist entertainer Fico Fellini met one damp autumn night at a West Berlin comedy open mic night. The following three years bro...

"Growing up - I was too brown for the white kids and the wrong kind of brown for the brown kids. That's when I first questioned my identity.“ Come and join international stand-up comedian Dharmander ...

20 years of fringe shows, 20 years of touring and so many stories. From La to New york to Newcastle and Glasgow. The Godmother of Scottish Comedy, chief Trump annoyer and all round Glasgow mouth piece...

The Asian Ellen DeGeneres - Lubna Kerr is a Scottish Pakistani female who pays homage to the American comedian, tv presenter, writer and actor Ellen DeGeneres. Lubna is an up and coming star of stage...

Mis(s)treated is a dark and twisted comedy about human trafficking and the prostitution business. It is new writing that takes you into an absurd and wild world. Three women, A, B and C, the owners o...

Its that time of the year again and I'm no longer in my twenties. I'm older, wiser, and now more British. I've live in the UK for the past year and this Canadian has been trying to stay happy amongs...

As a man who always grown up with dogs in his life, Scott Adams has a 'tail' or two on the pooches that shaped him. "Mixes the downright hilarious & Macabre with a plomb" Adelaide Advertiser 2018. Wit...

'Man is wolf to man.' Sounds pretty clever doesn't it? I will do about five minutes on bumholes first though. This show is also about bad choices, my dad going to Disney World without me when I was ei...

Award-winning Dave Green does his highly anticipated debut hour. Join him as he worries his way through all the big topics of the day in a paranoid stream of consciousness that will make your mind mel...

In a world of constant surveillance and social media there is nowhere to hide. New voices have been amplified and we are starting to question everything. Like, "How do you discover a country that alre...

A desk, a pile of papers, a stack of records and a funny, thought-provoking and really quite moving tale exploring love, love songs, and how we all live lives with our own personal soundtrack. Featuri...

A request for sex talk in German, a crippling back injury and coming out to her religious grandmother... Alice Frick knows the recipe for disaster well! The confused Austrian abroad indulges in life w...

Following last years successful debut, character comedian Gareth Joyner brings his northern club comic creation Frank Lavender back to the fringe for debut full hour. 'He works the crowd like an Ita...

In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Before ...

The worldwide hit show returns with a line-up of superb and varied comedians from all around the Fringe doing material based around the hilarious, cheeky subject of shagging. ‘A tour de force of lau...

Join the Edinburgh Fringe's top standups as they share their most cringe worthy stage and life experiences with a few surprises thrown in! A brand new compilation show like no other. Don't miss this s...

In the last five years doing stand up I've met great comics from every continent (except Antarctica, they're rubbish), and I want to show them off to the people of the Edinburgh Fringe. Expect to see ...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day. Two shows every day, as the Laughing Horse's Pick of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh for its 15t...

Last year, it was stories about being pissed on by a dragon, near killed by a fire breathing dragon, and accidentally joining a Romani Gypsy Drug Smuggling Ring. This year it's a brand new hour of tru...

"a top class comic" - Birmingham Mail "the most enjoyable hour" - BBC News 700,000 video views. Can an award-winning comedian elevate the lowest form of wit to the highest form of art? Probably not,...

The Fresh Prince of the comedy is a master of the crowd and slave to the laugh. Kyle Legacy is hilarious and so original. If you came to laugh hard, Kyle is at your service. With huge success in 2017 ...

“Property tycoon”, “wine connoisseur” and “functional adult” are all phrases you would never use to describe Brett Blake — he’s way too reckless. While his friends are busy getting married and buying ...

Darius Davies: The Art of the Troll “I like trolling big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be troll anyway, you might as well troll big.”—Darius Davies Here is Davies in act...

A TWISTED view of the world through song and stand up comedy. Aaron’s energetic and aggressive musical comedy is peppered with expletives with very dark-humoured undertones. Be it about an ex-girlfrie...

Welcome to the Edinburgh meeting of the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous.' Through audio entries, soul searching and group participation, let me, the newly elected leader of an elite group of ...

"I couldn't just leave you alone." In the private visiting room of a minimum security Scottish prison, a fraught long-term friendship reaches it’s breaking point. Nick and Nina have been best friends...

A washed up, gin-soaked former Prime Minister sits alone in his office when a chance encounter with a serf leads him to start reminiscing… about a glorious summer’s evening long ago, among the dreamin...

30 Years of Stand-up! 25 Years of Marriage! What is the Secret to Marriage? How can you laugh for 40 minutes and still come away motivated to work on the oldest institution in existence? Just come on ...

Mike’s Back After a sell-out world tour and release of his bestselling novel “Gobsmacked", Michael Hackett brings back his unique brand of storytelling and raucous comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe. Hi...

In August 2017 Mark Row arrived in Edinburgh to perform his stand-up comedy show ‘A1: The Long Road to Edinburgh’ for the entire 25-night run. Just twelve months earlier he had never stepped on stage ...

Puns! Lots of puns! Spoken puns, visual puns, musical puns, contrived puns and a lot of props. No themes, no learning, no sad bit at the 45-minute mark; you know what you're getting. From the brain th...

The debut season of a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming female comedians from around the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. An early evening show for all comedy fans. This show is al...

A comedy rockumentary about a band that never happened. Conor discovers his old band's 18-year-old demo and decides if giving up the pipe dream was the right thing to do – what if they didn't? What if...

Award-winning cabaret star and the UK’s most successful juggler, Mat Ricardo, had a problem – after a 30-year career as the go-to guy for jaw-dropping dexterity, he'd run out of new tricks. So he did ...

Join this 'observational genius' (Guardian) for his 10th solo show! In 10 years he’s been married, divorced, happy, depressed and twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. This year he’s taking ...

Michael Malone is an award-winning stand-up comedian, film director and writer based in Los Angeles California. In his new one hour show, "I Love You" Michael shares what it means to be 'Youngish' and...

Missing Hypnos is a one-person show about Ollie's struggles with insomnia, a mental illness that affects one in three people in the UK. It is a collaboration between Ollie (the performer) and Aimee (p...

Toronto Sketch Comedy Fest favourite and alumnus of the legendary Second City, Kevin Matviw invites you to join him on a very special night of absurd, break-neck comedy that explores everything from w...

Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe... with music specially selected to get your toes tapping and you sing...

Chris McGlade is a comedian with a compelling political rage burning inside him delivered with unbridled passion.This one hour show of hard hitting stand up is a follow up to last year's critically ac...

Society doesn't know how to react to Troy Hawke, a dashing 1930's time capsule who has recently been freed from decades of home school, home college, (a gap year in the conservatory) and home universi...

Nigel Ng is from Malaysia. Join him as he observes and adopts your Western ways (he just started recycling!) People describe him as "slick, has natural funnybones" (Chortle). Amused Moose National New...

Kemah Bob (BBC Three and The Guilty Feminist) has left the American South and is throwing a celebration with a new guest comedian every night. Although racism, misogyny and homophobia are a close seco...

Martin Mor is blocked on Twitter by Donald Trump, The NRA, and the Creationist Church. That's three good reasons to come to see this show. "hecklers beware, Mor's put-downs are superb and exquisitely...

In his debut solo show Dan tries to fathom why we find change so scary. This could be the deepest exploration of the human condition anyone has ever dared to undertake. We might discover things about ...

There are tales of those who do not awake from sleep. Kate is fearful this will become her very own fate. What does she fear in the dream world? Is there a presence that feeds on her very fears and tu...

Please note – this is not a dress code. Money isn’t everything. Or is that only something the well-off say. McBrier came from an upbringing of financial embarrassment. This makes her feel like a phon...

Now in its fourth year, the glorious, comedic voyage from suburbia to chaos finally comes to Edinburgh. Following a eureka moment in Hemel Hempstead, Joel Sanders bought a narrowboat and moved into ...

Scottish Comedian of the Year Leo Kearse rips into liberals in his follow up to last year's sellout hit "I Can Make You Tory". He takes a scalpel to male feminists, Labour antisemites, snowflakes, #Me...

Award-winning comedian Sarah Callaghan, fresh from hugely successful tours of Australia and New Zealand, returns to Edinburgh with a powerhouse mash-up of comedy and poetry about gangs, fitting right ...

The Rat Pack stand-up comedy returns for a 6th year after 5 sell-out years with the Free Festival. This year we celebrate stand-up comedy from around the world with our international stars of comedy ...

3's Comedy brings together Adam Knox, Luka Muller & Peter Jones, three of Australia's rising comedy stars - they've appeared on TV, they've been heard on radio, they've been bumped into on public tran...

Henry Ginsberg is not your standard everyman. He's an anxiety riddled, emotionally unstable, jaded romanticist who took up stand-up comedy aged 18 instead of going to uni, and who managed to remain a ...

Join us for an hour of fabulous comedy as part of the Fringe Free Festival. We’re in the third year of SHAnd Up Comedy and it just keeps getting better! Check out performances from some of the Fringes...

With 5 Edinburgh shows under his belt and 9 years experience as a professional, mickey brings his best hours worth of material. Expect routines as varied as relationships to immigration to relationshi...

Martin and Phil have always felt like there's something important they're supposed to do. Now they've figured out what it is. They're going to solve everything. All of it. The whole shebang. In an hou...

In the last 4 years Comedian Gareth Berliner has appeared in the worlds longest running soap (Coronation Street), told a time travelling Doctor to shut up (Doctor Who), punched a postman in the face (...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day. Two shows every day, as the Laughing Horse's Pick of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh for its 15t...

Laughing Horse NATY winner Donal Vaughan and fellow Irishman Pat McDonagh are here to make you laugh. And that's it. If you want to see a show about a middle class, white guy talk about the struggles ...

Stand Up, Weather Girl! charts Sam's experience of weather presenting for BBC regional TV. A committed feminist, she has been flattered and appalled in equal measure at the reception her bottom has re...

'What is best in life?' If you know the answer, come to this show. If you don’t... come anyway, there’ll be jokes. Andrew Roper has had three hit superhero-themed shows, and superhero kids shows, but ...

"An original way with words and a talent for one-liners and short stories" "with a touch of the gangly Ivo Graham's about him" (Bruce Dessau), Piccadilly Comedian of The Year Finalist, featuring on BB...

Is Victor the future of stand up comedy? The following the talk of the town, as said by comedians: “in my top 2 favourite Romanian comics” Ric Wharton “a delightful burp of art” Jack Brooks “refresh...

A show dealing with O'Riordan and Ettlings journey in comedy and their ultimate "success"(tongue firmly in cheek) The dizzying highs, the crushing lows, all laid bare for the audience. They tell the ...

Bob Munro presents a journey into the dimly lit surreal reaches of his mind jumping manically from one subject to another in an off kilter fashion calling on personal experiences and observations that...

‘Vic & Bob for the video game, grime generation, their Big Night Out-style chat show is a lot of fun’ The Scotsman The UK’s finest, and possibly only, spoof chat show and chaotic cabaret, The Not So ...

The cream of the crop from the University of Salford showcasing the future faces of British comedy. From the UK university with the longest running full-time comedy degree. Stand-up, sketch and more! ...

Pies and Haggis are a comedy duo, and together these two friends will take you on a comedy journey full of truth, lies and confessions. During this hilarious one-hour romp these funny ladies tackle to...

Still talking to each other after last year's Edinburgh success with Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand The Sight Of Each Other, no one is more surprised than them. Rosie Holt is unable to grasp some of the ...

Scotland’s favourite funny girl and viral internet sensation Ashley Storrie returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show about not growing up. With the world most likely ending quite soon, Ashley believ...

Join Strange Johnson at the launch of his new self-published Memoir. Chronicling his early life as a roadie for Judas Priest, through to how he became the owner of Dudley's biggest chain of Vape Shops...

Recently having turned 50 and having spent 25 years doing stand up comedy, Bill’s new show is all about contrast and change; then and now, here and there, you and me.....join him as he looks back, for...

Kirsty Munro "Comedy Cashback Competition Winner", "Fantastically Funny" Arts In Magazine, stars in "Dream On", a comedy show about what not to do when the love of your life just doesn't fancy you. Fe...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse's Comedy Selection returns...

WINNERS: 'PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD' VAULT FESTIVAL 2017 BattleActs! is an award-winning, multi-five star late-night comedy party show that has performed to rave reviews around the country. The show sees...

Best friends Stephen Bailey (Zoe Ball On Saturday - ITV) and Brennan Reece (Live At The Comedy Store - Comedy Central) have decided to do a show together. It's as simple as that. They went to school ...

International comedian George Dimarelos is bringing a new show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this time attempting to work out that vague term known as “culture”. George is fascinated by culture a...

For the 4th year, American atheist Bronston Jones reacts to the chaos of his country with a prayer: "God Bless 'Merica, because it'll take a miracle to fix it." Apparently, his first three years of ...

Comedy set swapping live! The cult hit show where comedians perform their own jokes, then each other’s. Chortle Award winner – Best Club Show London. Top five comedy shows of the year (List). Top 10 l...

Australian comedian Ross Voss’s show in the form of a basketball game! Four quarters of twelve minutes of jokes! Each quarter is different from: "more about me" to storytelling, longer bits and shorte...

See a huge selection of this year's big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival season...

How do you know where you are going in life? Are you ever done sorting yourself out? Lisanne was given the roadmap to her life at birth. Come and find out if she can follow the road to her destiny. ...

"If you like to shake your rump, join Larissa for an hour of phat beats, funky rhythms, parody, fun and ukulele as she tells of life and love through the slick rhymes of 90's RnB. Larissa grew up in t...

Ashley Haden is back with the eagerly awaited final chapter of the ‘C*nting Trilogy’ Haden returns with his most honest show to date to show once and for all that we are all c*nts. Covering subjects ...

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day. Two shows every day, as the Laughing Horse's Pick of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh for its 15t...

Tom Lawrinson and Daniel Sofoluke are doing an hour of stand up. They are two very different people with contrasting senses of humour, from opposite sides of the UK, but fortuitously when partnered to...

COMMON PEOPLE Janet Garner and Paul Cox are ordinary, common people and very happy with it.They aren’t trying to educate anyone, teach them where they are going wrong or how they should think and if ...

Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe... with music specially selected to get your toes tapping and you sing...

Andrew White presents five of the best acts from across the Edinburgh Fringe to bring the laughs for charity. All funds raised from the bucket collection will go towards Caden's Fight and the fantasti...

EXTRA SHOWS ADDED TO MEET DEMAND! 9PM SHOW DAILY FROM THE 12TH-26TH (NOT 15TH) Ollie is in hot demand as a headlining comedian at comedy clubs all around Asia. His sharp wit, intelligent material, a...

Comedy Boxing returns to Edinburgh with different competitors each show. Comedians will compete over 4 hilarious rounds of stand up, improvisation, heckling and boxing. With 3 years of sold out shows ...

A work-in-progress musical comedy show from multi-award-winning comedian Harriet Braine, set in a library at the end of the world. Well, sort of. The world has not been destroyed quite yet (in 2023) b...

The Great Baldini, the legendary stage magician, tells the story of his life from his boyhood to the present day. Using a series of spectacular illusions he demonstrates how his interest in magic sta...

Dan was almost shot – and it's all Rupert Murdoch's fault. Kinda. A lefty snowflake somehow working at The Sun, fighting the choir of voices in his head leads him on a noble quest in this demonstrably...

@izzybaby1991: "You're invited to a very special 27th birthday party. One I promise you won't forget!" #27Club #SocialMediaSuicide Social Media Suicide (#SMS) is a darkly comic one-woman-show about t...

Lebanese by blood, Australian by birth, European by 2020. After a formidable spell in Berlin, Frank realises that identity is fickle and machismo is bullshit and is no longer defined by words. An orig...

Enjoy a rotating line-up of bands featuring a host of top local musicians doing a collection of familiar and unique covers, a great night to sing along and get your toes tapping at the Fringe! 3rd A...

Our global world is unhinged (maybe that’s why people want to go to Mars)! Connor McDonough-Flynn will bring you on a tour of our weird, wonderful world in his show entitled “Unhinged”. The motivatio...

Want adventure? Want to laugh? Want to discover what it is like to move to New York City? Then come and join Big O, the Singing Acupuncturist, in this hilarious hour of comedy where Olivia entertain...

Do you struggle to fit in in an ever-changing world? Does the speed of change make you feel old before your time? Then you know how Paul feels. Join him as he exposes his thoughts, fears and vulnerabi...

An hour of stand-up from a trio of bumpkins. 'Each a force of nature and a full throttled idiot' (Logan Murray). Eleri, Fiona and Ruth mix social commentary with silliness as they simplify the complex...

Nominated Best Comedy FRINGE WORLD 2016, Sam has been crushing stand up globally, and now he's created a MOCK TALK SHOW that's designed to make you laugh hard and have too much fun. So, come along for...

Who runs the world? Not me, obviously. I handed the keys to that drunk guy. I was taught that “looking out for number one” was a horribly selfish thing to do. So for many years I selflessly helped o...

Self-proclaimed 'Love Expert' and award-winning clown Kiva Murphy brings you on an absurd journey about the crazy things people do to find their perfect match. Whether you're single or in a relationsh...

A wanderer approaches... the time has come, the choosening is upon us. From the makers of Knightmare Live comes The M.M.O.R.P.G show (Spirit of the Festival winners VAULT 2016) to the Edinburgh Fring...

With a diverse combination of Yellow Comedian of the Year Finalist, o2 indigo host and, BAME and LGBTQ comedy, this stand up trio has appeal for everyone. With their mix of observational, deadpan and ...

Come and join us for a wunderbar time at Cosmic Comedy Berlin. Laugh your Lederhosen off at a wide range of topics by some of the best comics from the Berlin English comedy scene. They will be sharing...

Proud to support the Free Festival the 99 Club brings a selection of some of the best comics at the Fringe. 4 different comics perform every day and quality is guaranteed as the 99 Club has won Best L...

Hello. You look nice today. But no time for that. This event will go ahead no matter what happens. Power outage? The wheel will spin. Sudden outbreak of witch trials? The wheel will spin. The wheel br...

Remember when Nazis were just in Germany, Austria, and Clacton-on-Sea? Well now they're in the White House, Downing Street, and Clacton-on-Sea. Join lefty libtard snowflake saviour of mankind LJ DA ...

Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017 Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with an inter-dimensional work-in-progress stand up comedy show. "A singular and truly distinct act, Alasdair...

A brand new stand up show from Comedian David Callaghan. 'One of my highlights of the fringe' **** (Scotsman). 'Far more original than many big comedy names' **** (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine). 'He r...

2018 dating is a disaster so it’s time to let the crazy out. MTV presenter, comedian and co-host of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ comedy award-winning podcast ‘A Gay And A NonGay’, James Barr unleashes a h...

"The Never Ending Cycle" has something for everyone. Silly, satirical and surreal, a sketch comedy show that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but packs a punch. Filled with relatable observational c...

After his last stretch in the slammer, Tony Corleone has become a sit-down comedian. Don’t worry about nothing. Tony’s gonna explain everything. Brexit, Trump, Terrorism, Gays, MeToo, and how to talk...

Matt Duwell ("Razor Sharp Ability...The boy's got talent” Mumble Comedy) is a snowflake, and he is owning that label (despite thinking labels are pejorative). A show for anyone who has ever been calle...

Join us for a prime selection of acoustic music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with different musicians and duos specially chosen for the Fringe, performing each night in the cosy surrounds...

An Irish run Stand Up Comedy Compilation Show featuring some of the best comedians from around the festival, FOR FREE. With a new selection of comedians every night, this is an ideal opportunity to ge...

Sean McLoughlin (Ricky Gervais, Bill Burr tour support) hosts a ridiculous line-up of some of the biggest and best comedians at the Fringe for two special nights. All money raised goes to a local home...

Corydon Ovium the latin for Clown Sheep. Multi-media horor theatre piece, with elements of black comedy. Looking at Anxiety and the Evil source that feeds on it. The Ringmaster welcomes you to their t...

Dogs can write. We see it in Christmas Cards and Birthday Cards. Dear Jacob, Happy Christmas, lots of love Laura and Paul and Spot (Woof woof!). Nobody knows why dogs have learned to write but thus fa...

Watching the world at this point in history feels like watching the moment just before a dog shakes a flea off it's back. The whole world is on edge. Everybody's had enough and we've never been so qui...

Comedians losing their heads and performing with no bodies! This sell-out show returns with more of the best comedians from the Fringe... all delivering comedy from their floating heads. New line-up o...

An Evening of Intimate Magic (and Comedy) with a Master Thousands of people have seen John Lenahan performing his hilarious magic live in comedy clubs around the world and millions have seen him on t...

A letter received from 14 years in the past. A date with doomsday. The end of a ten-year relationship and the start of your dream career. What would you do if you could find out what your teenage self...

Sultry and cool, Carmen is a gender-swapped Film Noir fantasy. Step into a world of drama, tension, sex and intrigue, where the struggle between good and evil is real and personal. Tough female detect...

Ever thought of what Hannah Montana would sound like if she sung on the Alex Jones Show? Or what Britney Spears would sound like if she became a flat-earth conspiracy theorist? Could you possibly imag...

What happens to our minds when the lights go out?! Nicoletta Wylde is Afraid of the Dark is a semi-autobiographical storytelling spoken word show about living with Night Terrors. Set in the backdrop o...

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. Also, some juggling. Reach into Fanny's cabinet for a musical voyage of hilarity. But beware! Somebody's out to sink her ship. Riddl...

Roselit Bone are a band from Portland, Oregon, United States. They combine elements of 1950's Hollywood cowboy music, Mexican mariachi and ranchera, hot-rod rockabilly, and cinematic Morricone-esque a...

Brace yourself for titters and giggles, as drag-queen Marcia D’Arc brings her ‘Songs of Smut and Sparkle’ to the Edinburgh Free Fringe, performing her own smutty parodies of popular songs at her furry...

OMMMM. In a sacred space (Not a safe space!) The comedy gurus await your presence. A compilation of socially conscious comedians, raising awareness of important issues in a funny and accessible way. A...

In an alternate universe there lies a place where everything is juxtaposed, where cardboard is classy, where alternative facts become live entertainment while the show is mere intervals for your inapp...

Just before New Years 2011 I decided my resolution for the new year would be to limit my drinking to one day a week in 2012. My friend gave me a deck of cards, saying that every drinking day I used up...

After performing to sold out crowds in Toronto, Death Ray Cabaret returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with more fast-paced songs and break-neck banter. Silly, dark and delightful, come celebrate human li...

'How to Be a Bad Girl' chronicles this former classical pianist's delightful descent into the world of smut, booze and burlesque. Based on Chap's signature tune, which has become a stalwart in the bur...

Standup comedy... Have you ever noticed how the best conversations at a party usually take place in the kitchen? Come to my party its a massive kitchen party. We'll party have a laugh and talk utter r...

The worldwide hit show returns with a line-up of superb and varied comedians from all around the Fringe doing material based around the hilarious, cheeky subject of shagging. ‘A tour de force of lau...

A funny, naughty romp through the world of BDSM and fetish. Have you seen "50 Shades Of Grey"? Are you fetish curious? Do you ever feel like a change from Vanilla sex? Mistress Venetia answers enquiri...

We are a collective of clowns who met through Dr. Brown workshops/ Ecole Philippe Gaulier - committed to pushing each other into deep realms of nonsense and stupidity. Through this Variety/Cabaret/Clo...

Gay and straight worlds come together as unlikely friends James Barr and Dan Hudson bring their hugely successful podcast to Edinburgh - LIVE! James will explore the 'admin' behind gay sex, while Dan ...

Berlin's cheekiest cabaret comes to Edinburgh! The Full Moon Cabaret is Berlin's wittiest, wildest, and most inventive monthly varieté. The sexy and subversive programme features burlesque, circus art...

Jim Jefferies! Steve Hughes! Carl Barron! All amazing Australian comedians who won't be at AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy because they're not at Edinburgh this year. Catch a nightly showc...

Pre-show disclaimer: “The Piece takes place in the dark. As you enter the attic space you will be given a glowstick (“phosphorescent rod of safety.”) If you don’t want the performer to bother you, ju...

Jem Brookes: Schizophonic is a fast-paced cacophony of characters and voices that come out of one man's head. Quick-fire skits, sounds, recurring characters and topical bits all interlaced together. R...

Award-winning stand up and musical comedian Jon Long (Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite 2016 and Winner of Comedy Store King Gong) is out to entertain you. To do so he'll be employing all the t...

After last year's sell out success, Award-winning comedian Rahul Kohli returns picking up to five of the best upcoming acts on the circuit right now, for a late-night comedy extravaganza! Including s...

A show that makes smack talk an art form. Comedy Roast Battle (Edinburgh) puts two comedians head-to-head in a battle of wit and put-downs. Each comic gets 5 jokes to 'roast' their opponent. The oppo...

Rory Mullen is delighted to invite you to his new show 'A field of hand painted grass', a beautiful mixture of theatre, performance art and comedy. What follows is a list of what you can expect to see...

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. Also, some juggling. Reach into Fanny's cabinet for a musical voyage of hilarity. But beware! Somebody's out to sink her ship. Riddl...

An hour long stand-up show from future legends Laura Ollerton, Jessie Johnson, Rob Cooper and Jessie Nixon that promises to redefine your perceptions of comedy and launch western civilisation into a n...

After a successful tour of Australia and New Zealand, Scott brings his new show to this year's Edinburgh Fringe. 'Getting Away Scott Free'. We all have the story about 'the one that got away' Scott i...

The best way to round off a long day at the Fringe! Ever wanted to be part of a comedy show but don't like the idea of being picked on by the comedian? Do you have funny suggestions for stand up topi...

6th year of the Edinburgh fringe's most successful-ever Jewish comedy show. It's a fun, revealing and truthful story which also provides an excellent opportunity to hear once again some of the world's...

Daniel Louis Vezza, international traveling Comedian talks about living between Berlin and New York, Family, Stress, Sex, and the downfalls of mild drug use. Originally from America, Daniel is now a ...

3 different comics. 3 different wishes. 3 different drinkers. A standup comedy showcase for anyone who has ever sat in a pub having a drink and a laugh with their mates. The three acts, who also happ...

“Zoe. Get me God on line 1. And while you’re at it, bend the space time continuum, I’m going to be late for my Nobu lunch with Terry Wogan”. Thirty something year old Zoe has been having anxiety drea...

Want adventure? Want to laugh? Want to discover what it is like to move to New York City? Then come and join Big O, the Singing Acupuncturist, in this hilarious hour of comedy where Olivia entertain...

Sunjai Arif presents: Stranger Friends. Come on a journey to the upside down and meet some of Sunjai's weird and wonderful friends. Sunjai has been touring the country with his unique style of comedy,...

A tale of three colours. The show starts as pristine white in Bethnal Green and devolves to brown in Whitechapel, finally complete blackness in the heart of Leyton; it looks at ourselves and at societ...

Late Night Lucky Bag is an unpredictable extravaganza of exciting comedy talents, where no two shows are the same! Every night, a rising star of the comedy scene will curate their own night of comedy....

Filippo wants you to feel good. He will do it by performing well, maybe with bizarre quips, one-liners while flirting with storytelling and you (yes, you, baby!); maybe with family stories or by chall...

'The smash-hit show returns for a fifth year, with top TV comedians - aka the Gladi-Haters - improvising rants on topics suggested by the audience. By turns raucous and surreal, this show has the audi...

Tired of watching middle class white boys try to be funny? Come watch a middle class brown boy try to be funny! Sameer Katz brings his third show to the Fringe! American born, Cambridge educated, sooo...

Trev Tokabi, from the Ivory Coast, has a knack to put himself in compromising situations! If you have a mate, friend, partner, homeboy, homegirl, brother, sister,husband, wife or just know someone who...

After performing to sold out crowds in Toronto, Death Ray Cabaret returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with more fast-paced songs and break-neck banter. Silly, dark and delightful, come celebrate human li...

"Anesti Danelis delivers the funny with a hefty side of heart. Not only were his songs expertly composed, his lyrics were freaking hilarious." (MooneyOnTheatre.com) Songs for a New World Order is an ...

Henry Ginsberg presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol fuelled showcase of the best stand up comedy from this year's fringe. Hopefully everybody makes it ...

A fabulous selection of outrageous Queer performers from across the fringe. Hosted by Sian Davies (“The audience relax as soon as she takes the stage. Her affable manner and sharp wit make Sian Davies...

Part stand up comedy, part game show. Three of the funniest comedians on earth take the stage with some of the best jokes in the world. Each one is sneaking in a different new joke every night. If the...

Lunafruit are fresh new band from London, bringing their project to the Edinburgh festival as part of their Summer 2018 tour. Drawing together influences from jazz, RnB, soul, funk and pop, their live...

The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill. Across the month of August, the University of Oxford's premier sketch comedy troupe presents a rotating bill of stand-up, sketch,...

The Spice Girls lied right to our faces. they sold us girl power, the crappy music, the equally crappy merch. We soaked it up. They told us friendship would last for ever then each one of them went o...

The Diamond Comedy Club is bringing some of the freshest voices in stand-up comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe for an unmissable late night party! Each night, a different line-up will take to the Counting...

Going to bed so soon? But the night has just begun! Enjoy some Late Night LOLs with some of the best comedians at the Fringe. The best show you'll find at this hour. Hosted by award-winning comedian A...